3:59 PM,
Aug. 21, 2013

Michigan head coach John Beilein and Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo.

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Posted by Brian Manzullo
Detroit Free Press Sports Writer

The two best X's and O's coaches in college basketball are in the state of Michigan, according to Division I head coaches around the country.

ESPN polled "about two-thirds" of Division I coaches, roughly 250, in determining who the best tacticians are in college hoops - "the coaches who scare their counterparts with their ability to diagram plays and have their players carry out those plays" - and the vote didn't turn out to be close.